How the STI epidemic can inform policy solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic
As the burden of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) plateaus into a perpetual state of public health emergency for 2020, examining the United States’ forgotten epidemic of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) offers insight to a COVID-19 solution. STIs are the long-neglected contagious disease that echo many of the same socioeconomic, political, racial, and structural problems feeding the recursive tragedy of COVID-19. Targeted investments are of critical importance as there is a …